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a few weeks ago, I was fortunate to win 1st prize from the Sunday Times cryptic Xword. Should I now stop submitting completed grids to ST, or is it fair to possibly win more than once?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well done! Carry on submitting. Last year was the first since 1999 that I wasn't lucky enough to win on the various Telegraph crosswords. Some 30 years ago a friend of mine won three consolation prizes in 20 weeks on the Saturday Telegraph cryptic. Once you send in your solution it becomes a raffle and you don't stop buying raffle tickets if you win on one.
I think I have already won the Times Jumbo 3 times, and this morning I got a lovely package with Times atlas, Collins dictionary, & 2 Times paperbacks (Su-doku & crosswords) so can only assume I've been lucky again!
Local charities are always very happy when I'm so lucky, and love having these books - or whatever - as raffle prizes.
Local charities are always very happy when I'm so lucky, and love having these books - or whatever - as raffle prizes.
Congratulations in your win sgeandhu. I have won all the Times crosswords and the Sunday Times twice over the last 24 years, but every time I win one I tend to leave it alone for a few months. I did win the Independent twice in one year, but I'm sure that was a fluke. I always say I will stop doing them but it's not so easy.
Not the ST , but I've won the Darlington & Stockton Times and also the Yorkshire Post crosswords several times each in a short space of time.
I now enter all the Express and Mail every week though as of yet I havent had a win ( though I did get a cheque for �25 last year with just a compliments slip but no mention what it was for ... so I presume I got a runner up prize ! ) .
MMAB
I now enter all the Express and Mail every week though as of yet I havent had a win ( though I did get a cheque for �25 last year with just a compliments slip but no mention what it was for ... so I presume I got a runner up prize ! ) .
MMAB
I think definitely carry on - the fun isn't just in winning, but in solving a puzzle and submitting a (hopefully correct) entry.
To add weight to others' experience of multiple wins, I've won Azed twice over a two-year period plus had a couple of VHCs for competition clues. So I think you have a fair chance, and surely papers must be very sensitive after the trouble TV shows got into over dodgy selection of winners.
To add weight to others' experience of multiple wins, I've won Azed twice over a two-year period plus had a couple of VHCs for competition clues. So I think you have a fair chance, and surely papers must be very sensitive after the trouble TV shows got into over dodgy selection of winners.